The Moscow Eccentric, Paperback - Andrei Bely

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Extortion, lies, duplicity and murder, all of which take place in Moscow's dark underworld. At the center, unknowingly, is Alexandra Malikova, a wh...

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Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Elena GorokhovaNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 217 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedes...

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Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering, which he transformed into ...

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